Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Mark Edwin Andrews, a Texas oilman with four years of World War II service as a naval officer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
...Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted a "day" to him. Latvian churches prized his ikons. His paintings hung in 25 countries. League of Nations committees solemnly discussed his "Banner of Peace" (a red circle enclosing three red spheres on a field of white), which would protect religious and cultural buildings...
...Hollywood, Actor Robert Montgomery (who drove an ambulance in France in 1940) was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in San Francisco, the Legion's butter-plate-sized Grand Cross was hung on General Mark Clark...
...Died. Mark Hellinger, 44, pioneer Broadway columnist, Hollywood producer (The Killers); of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Convivial, flashy Hellinger lived exactly as gossip-column fans imagine a "Broadwayite" should, married Gladys Glad, a Ziegfeld showgirl, moved to filmland to become one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic practical jokers and its prototype of a "swell...
...Chief staple: poi, a fermented paste made from taro root. "And an unseductive mixture it is," wrote Mark Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...